Elaborate plot to discredit SAA boss

Prominent private investigator Paul O’ Sullivan has been implicated in a documents saga seemingly aimed at discrediting the chairperson of SAA, Dudu Myeni, according to a report in The Sunday Independent. It claims O’Sullivan is at the centre of a forensic investigation into attempts to use fake documents to link Myeni to overseas bank accounts worth millions. The ploy was exposed when O’Sullivan made serious claims against Myeni to the SAA board, management and their lawyers, and some state agencies. These included that she was illegally benefiting from an SAA tender and the Gauteng e-tolls contract. The report says the information, allegedly obtained by O’Sullivan from an informer, was apparently circulated to selected journalists and high ranking members of government departments. Among the documents are forged bank statements and a surveillance request purportedly from Interpol. The documents sought to 'expose' Myeni’s ill-gotten riches, supposedly stashed in secret accounts in French and Austrian banks. The report adds O’Sullivan has admitted he tried to use the fake documents against Myeni, but said he had been misled by his sources. Independent Media says it is also in possession of documents that show O’Sullivan later offered a sum of money to Myeni as an apology for having been involved in the campaign. In the correspondence the fraud investigator appears concerned that Myeni could bankrupt him in a possible defamation suit.